New Scientist - USA (2020-07-04)

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CLIMATE CHANGE
IN THE TIME OF
PANDEMIC

Rebuilding the global economy
after covid-19 and saving the planet
from climate change is possible.
Climatologist Mark Maslin
explains how

DECODING
REALITY

Quantum physicist Vlatko Vedral
delves into the quantum nature of
reality and makes a dramatic
conclusion about the universe

CORONAVIRUS:

CAN WE TRUST THE

SCIENCE?

Our expert panel discusses why

a second epidemic of preliminary,

unverified and misinterpreted

research has broken out – and

how best to fix it

ALIEN OCEANS ON

EARTH AND BEYOND

NASA astrobiologist Kevin Peter

Hand explores why the small,

ice-covered moons of Jupiter and

Saturn offer the best chances of

finding life beyond Earth

WHAT WE STILL

DON’T KNOW ABOUT

BLACK HOLES

Leading astronomer Chris Impey

reveals what makes black holes so

special and why they still haven’t

given up all their secrets

CORONAVIRUS:

THE SCIENCE OF A

PANDEMIC (FREE)

Our expert panel on how

researchers around the world

are racing to understand the virus

and prevent future outbreaks

HOW HUMANS

ARE ALTERING LIFE

ON EARTH

From selective breeding and

genetic technologies to changing

the biosphere, our actions are

speeding up evolution, explains

Helen Pilcher

9 July

WHAT HAPPENED

AT THE BIG BANG?

Theoretical

astrophysicist Dan

Hooper reveals why

recreating the

conditions of the big

bang is helping to the

biggest mysteries of

the cosmos

23 July

THE ART OF

STATISTICS

Leading statistician

David Spiegelhalter

reveals the essential

principles we need

in order to derive

knowledge from data

30 July

THE SCIENCE

OF SIN

Neurobiologist Jack

Lewis shed lights on

the universally

fascinating subject of

temptation - where it

comes from, how to

resist it and why we

all succumb

13 August

THE END OF

THE UNIVERSE

Will our universe

collapse in upon

itself, rip itself apart,

or even succumb to an

inescapable expanding

bubble of doom,

asks astrophysicist

Katie Mack

27 August

WHO WERE THE

NEANDERTHALS?

Archaeologist

Rebecca Wragg Sykes

reveals the untold and

fascinating story of

the Neanderthals,

shedding new light on

their complex lives

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